Son-Jara: The Mande Epic 
Subtitle: Mandekan/English Edition With Notes and Commentary (African Epic Series)
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780253343376
Subjects: African studies; Folklore; Social Science; Sociology; Sub-Saharan Africa; West Africa; Africa - General; African; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Folklore & Mythology; Epic of Son-Jara; In literature; Keita, Soundiata,; d. 1255
First sentence: Western and Western-trained scholars who attempts to reconstruct a chronological history of the great empire period of West Africa have argued that Son-Jara, or as he is more widely known, Sunjata, was a historical person.